Category: Vugraph

Agatha Christie was born as Clarissa Agatha Miller, and having taken her first husband Archibald’s surname, she completed her first detective novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” in 1916. It was only published four years afterwards after six rejections, introducing Detective Poirot in the second chapter. Before this, Christie was a nurse – and little…

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt was born in 1884, the grandson of the famed magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, and can today be called one of the most influential figures ever in bridge. Even though “train” was reportedly one of my first words – thanks to the view of a railway from the house – I didn’t hear the…

I always find it exciting to find little references to bridge in fictional universes – although sometimes I have to wonder about the lack thereof, too. There are a few fictional universes where I’m of the firm opinion that a game or two of bridge would have fit in perfectly fine. Here are a few…